Wiki-like markup for Guide

[Rainer Müller]

C. Florian Ebeling wrote:
>> And I think the more complex structured environment of DocBook has been a
>> benefit.  I realize that markdown (and other ones) support a structure as
>> well, but we'd I think we'd have to come up with a fairly complex style
>> guide for its use to support a consistent style to get the functionality
>> we now have.  In other words, we'd end up creating a DTD, which is what
>> DocBook is.  So my opinion is that it would take a lot of work to get the
>> functionality we now have, and we'd likely not do a good enough job with a
>> DTD to have as consistent a style as we have now.
> 
> Ok, then let's just keep docbook. I thought other might consider it combersome
> as well, but if that's not the case, then so be it :)

I agree with Florian that editing our guide is not very easy. XML is a
nice exchange format for structured data, but I don't like to edit it by
hand.

Maybe we could consider asciidoc as it offers an easy syntax, but is in
fact a converter from ASCII to DocBook XML.

  http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/

Rainer